Eb White Quotes

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don't have a white flag, do you?

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.

When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.

No black or white America-just United States of America.

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.